When most people think of cyberweapons, they imagine tools built in secret government labs. But some of today’s most potent digital weapons didn’t start as state projects. They were born in the criminal underground.
One of the clearest examples is RomCom, a piece of malware that began life as a relatively ordinary remote access trojan (RAT) and has since evolved into a flexible, modular ecosystem now wielded by both nation-states and profit-driven attackers.
